# Wanted: Break up songs.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 3, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245 "2003-09-03T00:44:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/61 "2003-09-11T07:38:25Z")

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Damhnait Doyle - Another California Song

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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/62 "2003-09-11T07:48:00Z")

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Can’t have a musical thread without that friggin’ Ellis Dee coming in with a Zappa reference:

My personal all-time favorite break-up song:

[Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Freak_Out/04.html)

He has others, including, but not limited to:

[I Ain’t Got No Heart](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Freak_Out/02.html)  
[How Could I Be Such A Fool](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Freak_Out/06.html)  
[You Didn’t Try To Call Me](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Freak_Out/08.html)  
[Any Way The Wind Blows](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Freak_Out/09.html)  
[Broken Hearts Are For Assholes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=7)  
[Yo’ Mama](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Sheik_Yerbouti/18.html)  
[Bamboozled By Love](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Tinseltown_Rebellion/13.html)  
[Harder Than Your Husband](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/You_Are_What_You_Is/02.html)  
[Jumbo Go Away](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/You_Are_What_You_Is/18.html)  
To call him a [prolific writer](http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/) would be an understatement.

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/63 "2003-09-11T07:49:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Rooves \*  
> \*\*And so it goes - Billy Joel \*\*

Sorry, but ASIG is about starting a relationship after having been hurt in the past. Not about breaking up.

I’ll second the Ben Folds songs _Smoke_ and _Song for the Dumped_, and offer a few more of his:

_Selfless, Cold and Composed_: “Come on, baby, just throw me a right to the chin. Just one sign that’ll show me that you give a shit. But you just smile like a bank teller, blankly telling me ‘have a nice life.’”

_Julianne_: “I’ll sing a song, but it won’t be the blues, cuz I don’t miss Julianne”

_Fair_: “Well, he shouted out his last words, and stumbled through the yard, and she shattered her last china plate, and spun off in the car”

And, on a related note, just about anything by Counting Crows.

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